The Empress "Sissi" of Austria, Empress Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, and Emperor Nicholas II of Russia vacationed in Sanremo, while Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel made it his permanent home. From the middle of the 18th century the town grew rapidly, in part due to the development of tourism, which saw the first grand hotels built and the town extended along the coast. It is now used as a museum.Īfter the French domination and the Savoy restoration in 1814, Sanremo was annexed to the Kingdom of Sardinia. The fortress was used as a prison until 2002. At that time Genoa built the fortress of Santa Tecla, situated on the beach near the port. In 1753, after 20 years of fierce conflicts, it rose against Genoese hegemonical attempts. Sanremo remained independent of the Genoese Republic. The almost perfectly preserved old village remains. It became a free town in the second half of the 15th century, after which it expanded to the Pigna hill and at Saint Syrus Cathedral. In 1297 they sold it to the Doria and De Mari families. The nobility built a castle and the walled village of La Pigna to protect the town from Saracen raids.Īt first subjected to the countship of Ventimiglia, the community later passed under the dominion of the Genoese bishops. Once the Roman settlement of Matutia or Villa Matutiana, Sanremo expanded in the early Middle Ages when the population moved to the high grounds. It has been the most widely used form of the name in English at least since the 19th century. This form of the name, now superseded by Sanremo both officially and in common usage, still appears on some road signs and, more rarely, in unofficial tourist information. The non- univerbated spelling San Remo features on ancient maps of Liguria and maps of the Republic of Genoa, Medieval Italy, the Kingdom of Sardinia, and the Kingdom of Italy it was used in 1924 in official documents under Mussolini. While it is often stated in modern folk stories that Sanremo is named after a legendary Saint Remus, the name of the city is actually a phonetic contraction of Sant'Eremo di San Romolo ("Holy Hermitage of Saint Romulus"), which refers to Romulus of Genoa, the successor to Syrus of Genoa. ( December 2014) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources.
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